The Quarterly Review, Volume 109William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1861 - English literature |
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... less than three millions of people should possess not only the most magnificent and perfect inland navigation in the world , but in connection with it a system of railways unequalled on the American continent . During the last ten years ...
... less than three millions of people should possess not only the most magnificent and perfect inland navigation in the world , but in connection with it a system of railways unequalled on the American continent . During the last ten years ...
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... less constant , to more than one hundred thousand savage Indian hunters . This great territory is sprinkled over with groups and chains of lakes , the heads of which so nearly approach that it would be easy to unite them , and thus ...
... less constant , to more than one hundred thousand savage Indian hunters . This great territory is sprinkled over with groups and chains of lakes , the heads of which so nearly approach that it would be easy to unite them , and thus ...
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... less than 17. per head . ' Evidence of Sir George Simpson , Com- mittee on Hudson's Bay Company , Question 1457. Apart from the question of equivalents the conduct of the Hudson's Bay Company and their officers towards the Indians is ...
... less than 17. per head . ' Evidence of Sir George Simpson , Com- mittee on Hudson's Bay Company , Question 1457. Apart from the question of equivalents the conduct of the Hudson's Bay Company and their officers towards the Indians is ...
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... less fastidious in some respects than ourselves . Of the musk - rat , a million of skins are imported . The beaver is less in demand than it was , and its value has considerably fallen since the introduction of silk hats . The black and ...
... less fastidious in some respects than ourselves . Of the musk - rat , a million of skins are imported . The beaver is less in demand than it was , and its value has considerably fallen since the introduction of silk hats . The black and ...
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... less remarkable manner than in the bardic effusions of com- paratively , modern times . The extent to which the bards of the middle ages , and those of one or two subsequent centuries , carried rhyme and alliteration seems marvellous to ...
... less remarkable manner than in the bardic effusions of com- paratively , modern times . The extent to which the bards of the middle ages , and those of one or two subsequent centuries , carried rhyme and alliteration seems marvellous to ...
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Page 64 - With a, full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL Portraits.
Page 267 - O fools, and slow of heart, to believe all that the prophets have spoken ! Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory ? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them, in all the Scriptures, the things concerning himself.
Page 283 - But I have greater witness than that of John : for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me that the Father hath sent me.
Page 337 - Monsieur, tell those who sent you that we are here by the will of the People, and that nothing but the force of bayonets...
Page 333 - ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY MAN TO DO HIS DUTY !" It was received throughout the fleet with a shout of answering acclamation, made sublime by the spirit which it breathed, and the feeling which it expressed. "Now," said Lord Nelson, "I can do no more.
Page 327 - ... regard to the construction of clocks and watches ; and having found, after repeated trials, that he could not bring any two of them to go exactly alike, he reflected, it is said, with a mixture of surprise as well as regret, on his own folly, in having bestowed so much time and labour on the more vain attempt of bringing mankind to a precise uniformity of sentiment concerning the profound and mysterious doctrines of religion.
Page 210 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Page 327 - It was necessary, on all these accounts, to soothe passions which he could no longer command, and to give way to a torrent too impetuous to be checked. He promised solemnly to his men that he would comply with their request, provided they would accompany him, and obey his command for three days longer, and if, during that time, land were not discovered, he would then abandon the enterprise, and direct his course towards Spain.
Page 374 - I thought inimitable Spenser a mean poet in comparison of Sylvester's Du Bartas, and was rapt into an ecstasy when I read these lines : — ' Now when the winter's keener breath began To crystallize the Baltic ocean, To glaze the lakes, to bridle up the floods, And periwig with snow -(- the baldpate woods.' I am much deceived if this be not abominable fustian.
Page 327 - He was particularly curious with regard to the construction of clocks and watches ; and having found, after repeated trials, that he could not bring any two of them to go exactly alike, he reflected, it is said, with a mixture of surprise...